Word: simonize
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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PEACEABLE LANE (345 pp.) -Keith Wheeler-Simon & Schuster...
...distant home of her brother, pursued all the way by Ironshirts, and eventually marries a dying man so that the child will not be raised a bastard. The peasant she marries is not dead, but merely lying in bed for a year to escape the draft, so when Simon, her betrothed, returns from the war to claim her, she must tell him that she has broken her promise...
Baronial Branch. The fascinating tale of book collecting's great days emerges from this densely written biography by two former Rosenbach employees, and few readers will mind that the book is too long by half or that its style sometimes flutters giddily. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach was born in 1876, and sniffed book dust from childhood; his uncle Moses Polock was an early collector of Americana, and a bookseller who loved books too much to sell them. At the University of Pennsylvania young Rosenbach slighted his courses but stored up an amazing knowledge of books and their contents. While...
...WHITE STONE (271 pp.)-Carlo Coccioli-Simon & Schuster...
...articulated dissent embodied itself in a manifesto "On the Right to Refuse Service in the Algerian War," which was issued on September 1. The document signed by Jean-Paul Sartre, Simon de Beauvoir, Andre Breton, Simone Signore and 117 other French artists and intellectuals was essentially a refutation of responsibility for the excesses of the repressive French army. "French militarism, fifteen years after the destruction of Hitlerism, has restored torture," declared the signers. "What is the meaning of good citizenship," they asked, "when it is defined as shameful submission...